James Durney is a graduate of NUI, Maynooth. He was born in Naas, Co. Kildare, in 1961 and is married with two grown-up children. An award-winning writer, he has written extensively on Irish affairs, including award-winning books on organised crime in America and the Irish revolutionary period.
James has also worked on several radio and TV documentaries and was a consultant on TG4's Mobs Mheiricea (American Mobs).